Education and training opportunities provided through distance and open learning are one of the
few educational areas in which women in the developing world are well represented. Flexible
delivery methods help to overcome ...

In 2001 preliminary discussions took place between Professor B.R.R.N. Mendis, Chairman of the UGC of Sri Lanka, and Professor G. Dhanarajan, President of COL, about the status of external degree provision in Sri Lankan ...

According to the Commonwealth of Learning, the purpose of the workshop was to help
Mzuzu University academic staff “gain an understanding and insight into how to design
and develop instructional materials” for an open ...

These profiles of open and distance learning provision from institutions in eleven African
countries are based on papers developed by African distance educators for a workshop on
planning and management in open and ...

Regional expert meetings convened by Commonwealth of Learning (COL) - COL and its network are continuing work in addressing gender barriers, such as those encountered by women, to the use of information and communications ...

Regional expert meetings convened by Commonwealth of Learning (COL). COL and its network are continuing work in addressing gender barriers, such as those encountered by women, to the use of information and communications ...

Executive Summary (excerpt)- The Third Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF3) was held in Dunedin, New Zealand from 4-8 July 2004. The conference organisers were the Commonwealth of Learning www.col.org, the Distance ...

The paper presents the experiences of the President’s Special Initiative on Distance Learning
(PSI-DL) in providing distance education at the pre-tertiary level as an alternative means of
expanding access to education ...

In most countries some people live beyond major centres of population and, with the advance of
e-learning, expect to receive the same educational opportunities as those who live in cities. For
governments this raises the ...

According to Baumel (2002), “20 percent of school age kids are poor readers and remain that
way through their lifetime”. It has been proved repeatedly that reading is a language-based skill.
Poor reading skills thus ...